338698 - Video clips (Eurosport) does not function

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nigel Coombs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

No reaction

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to www.eurosport.com
2.  find a sport e.g. tennis
3.  select Video / ausio at right
4. try to start the video

Actual Results:  
Doesn't work at all

Expected Results:  
(poor quality) Video [works like that with IE!]

Functionned (hopefully with better quality than IE).

Comment 1

[Bengt-Erik Soderstrom]

It works for me. I tested in Firefox 1.5.0.3 (official build) and in my own MinGW to-day's build of Minefield: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060521 Minefield/3.0a1.

The video clip works just fine. Of course you need the Windows Media Player properly installed. 

Comment 2

[Nigel Coombs]

Thanks Bengt-Erik
I still can't make it work. I thought it was because I had blocked pop-ups, but that doesn't work.
What doi you mean by installing Windows Media PLayer correctly? It does work for me under IE so I assume it is properly installed, although I normally use Real Player. Do I have to tell Firefox to use Media PLayer rather than Real?

Comment 3

[Patrick]

wfm 
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060521 Minefield/3.0a1

Please have a look at http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html

Comment 4

[Nigel Coombs]

Thank you Patrick for your help. This site seems to use Active-X. I installed this plug-in and it now works perfectly : in fact rather better than IE!

Comment 5

[Nigel Coombs]

Sorry it was premature to close it. The video at http://www.eurosport.com/tennis/wta-rome/2006/mc_vid25382.shtml does now work, but the full screen button (the picture is so pixelized that it isn't really worth it!) still does not work. This may be due, I think to it's placement on the screen  which may not be quite the same in Firefox as in IE.

Comment 6

[Patrick]

Are you sure that that is the same issue?

Comment 7

[Nigel Coombs]

No it's probably not, because the video works apart from that. Let's just close it: full screen isn't worth bothering about

Comment 8

[Patrick]

(In reply to comment #7)
> No it's probably not, because the video works apart from that. Let's just close
> it: full screen isn't worth bothering about
> 

please click on the link for RESOLUTION before resolving a bug for the first time. It will take you to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#resolution
which tells you:
-->  FIXED
    A fix for this bug is checked into the tree and tested.

That is not the case here. Reopening.